DENTON, Texas \u2013 The UNT volleyball team rallied from a two-set deficit to reverse sweep UAB 3-2 (21-25, 15-25, 25-23, 25-22, 15-11) Sunday afternoon at the UNT Volleyball Center.<\/p>\n
The victory improved the Mean Green to 11-10 overall and 4-6 in American Conference play, while UAB fell to 9-13 and 3-7 in league action. It was UNT’s second reverse sweep of the season, marking the first time since 2007 and third time ever the Mean Green have done so twice in a single season.<\/p>\n
UAB took the opening set 25-21 before extending its lead with a 25-15 victory in the second. Facing a two-set deficit, North Texas responded in the third, jumping out to an early 6-2 advantage. After UAB rallied to take a 13-11 lead, the Mean Green scored five consecutive points to regain control. The Blazers fought off two set points before Loredana Fouonji<\/a> delivered the deciding kill to give UNT a 25-23 victory.<\/p>\n North Texas carried that momentum into the fourth set, opening with a 7-1 run and extending its advantage to 12-4. UAB narrowed the deficit late, but Ryann Vik<\/a> delivered the final kill to secure a 25-22 victory and force a decisive fifth set.<\/p>\n The Blazers opened the fifth set with a 4-1 lead before the Mean Green battled back. Trailing 5-2, UNT scored five consecutive points, highlighted by three straight service aces from Vik, to take a 7-5 lead. North Texas extended its advantage to 12-7 before Lillian Croshaw<\/a> sealed the comeback with the match-winning kill for a 15-11 victory.<\/p>\n Croshaw led the Mean Green with 15 kills on a .429 hitting percentage, while Fouonji added 14 kills on a .524 clip. Jahniya Jackson<\/a> also recorded 14 kills and two service aces.<\/p>\n Vik finished with a season-high nine kills on a .692 hitting percentage, adding a season-best three service aces. Setter Sidney Soria<\/a> dished out a career-high 45 assists alongside six digs, while Reagan Bedell<\/a> contributed 10 kills and nine digs.<\/p>\n As a team, North Texas recorded 67 kills, 59 assists and nine service aces in the victory.<\/p>\n North Texas returns to action Friday when it travels to face Wichita State at 6 p.m. CT. The match will be available for streaming on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENTON, Texas \u2013 The UNT volleyball team rallied from a two-set deficit to reverse sweep UAB 3-2 (21-25,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-476830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}